a year ago
Hello 👋
I have a problem running Opensearch on Railway. I would like to mount a volume on /usr/share/opensearch/data but, since the volume is mounted as root, Opensearch can't use it and I get errors. I tried to add RAILWAY_RUN_UID=0 as stated on Railway docs but Opensearch won't run as root :/
OpenSearch cannot run as root. Please start your container as another user.
Thanks for any help 🙂
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a year ago
Something like this will likely need to be done -
10 Replies
a year ago
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a year ago
As a workaround I used this start command but I'm not sure if it's suitable in a production environment 😦
bash -c "yum install -y sudo && chown -R 1000:1000 /usr/share/opensearch && sudo -E -u opensearch bash -c 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/opensearch/bin && ./opensearch-docker-entrypoint.sh'"
a year ago
Best practice is to do this in the dockerfile doing something like this
```docker
FROM opensearchproject/opensearch:latest
USER root
RUN chown -R 1000:1000 /usr/share/opensearch
USER 1000
CMD ["./opensearch-docker-entrypoint.sh"]
```
according to some articles I saw online. Let me know if this helps!
noahd
Best practice is to do this in the dockerfile doing something like this \`\`\`docker FROM opensearchproject/opensearch:latest USER root RUN chown -R 1000:1000 /usr/share/opensearch USER 1000 CMD \["./[opensearch-docker-entrypoint.sh](http://opensearch-docker-entrypoint.sh)"\] \`\`\` according to some articles I saw online. Let me know if this helps!
a year ago
Volumes aren't available during build, so chowning the folder at build won't do too much.
brody
Volumes aren't available during build, so chowning the folder at build won't do too much.
a year ago
Oh really? Well crap thats not ideal...
a year ago
Something like this will likely need to be done -
a year ago
I can't do this since opensearch container doesn't come with sudo installed. That's why i install it in the start command in my workaround :/
So looks like my solution wasn't "just" a workaround ?
a year ago
Take a peek at this as it looks to be doing something similar. https://github.com/railwayapp-templates/elasticsearch/blob/main/Dockerfile
noahd
Take a peek at this as it looks to be doing something similar. <https://github.com/railwayapp-templates/elasticsearch/blob/main/Dockerfile>
a year ago
As brody had sent^
Status changed to Solved brody • 11 months ago